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Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator ...
Nose air intake systems are, at this point, a relic of early jet fighter technology that's been phased out in favor of more ...
New silencer at tunnel mouths may end the deafening ‘tunnel boom’ and make China’s 370 mph maglev trains quieter, safer and ...
In 1957, a B58 Hustler bomber broke the sound barrier over Lexington, causing chaos in the city for the afternoon.
A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...
Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...
Exclusive: Read this harrowing excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, the book behind James Cameron's ...
The BrahMos and Tomahawk represent two fundamentally different approaches to deterrence. Think of it as the difference ...
This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally appeared in The Daily ...
A Michigan teen was goaded into sharing an intimate photo that scammers threatened to expose unless he paid up.
It came as a shock – quite literally. It shouldn’t have, because a recent paper had predicted that the area was preparing for a large earthquake. On 29 July, at 23:25 UTC, the 5th largest ...
The trash part of Philadelphia comes up more often in the show than you’d think,” tour guide Marshall Schurtz said, as he led us around bags of garbage piling up on the streets of South Philly during ...